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by stop50
894 days ago
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Yes. You have TLS, HTTP, HTML and javascript as an starter. Then you have CSS and video decoding and if you want/need an plugin from a foreign developer for EME(encrypted audio and video). Everyone of them also have different versions and/or features that you need to implement. Game engines on the other hand have an base you can build upon (DirectX, Metal, Vulkan, OpenGL) and that abstract things away. |
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The issue isn't so much the technologies available (though I've often cited reasons I'm unhappy with the status quo of web technologies) but more than game engines don't need to be compatible with every game in existence. Whereas web browsers need compatibility with every website.
It's compatibility that's hard.
Another example of how compatibility is hard is looking at how operating systems support older applications. A lot of the problems Windows has is due to its commitment to backwards compatibility. Whereas Apple take a different approach and expect developers to port their applications to newer releases of macOS.